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  • NBC tennis nets a 4-1 win in season opener

    By: Sean Moylan    The Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys’ varsity tennis team has a chance to be a playoff club this season but it needs to win all the matches it’s supposed to win and capture the toss-up matches too.    On Monday, the Greyhounds answered their first challenge when they downed the Holy…

  • Officials mislead in recent letters

    To the editor By:    This letter has been prepared in direct rebuttal to the nasty and inaccurate claims made by two of our elected Hillsborough Township Committeemen – Anthony Ferrera and Steve Sireci.    The common thread in the writings of Mssrs. Ferrera and Sireci is that the Direct Petition effort "tricked people into signing the…

  • Into the ‘Fire’

    Passage Theatre Company stages Charlayne Woodard’s autobiographical play. By: Jillian Kalonick Linda Kennedy stars in ‘Pretty Fire,’ at Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton April 14-24.    When playwright Charlayne Woodard was born, she weighed one pound, eight ounces — doctors didn’t expect her to live through the night. When she went home from the hospital 11…

  • Strong openers for South

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    The disappointment of having last Saturday’s opening day rained out was quickly washed away for the South Brunswick High School Track teams with double victories over Edison on Tuesday afternoon. The Lady Vikings upended the visiting Lady Eagles 85-55, and the boys smothered Edison 118-23 on the road.    Saturday’s meet, the…

  • ‘Taste of the Nation’ scheduled for April 18

       Top chefs from central New Jersey’s leading restaurants will join forces in the fight against hunger at Share Our Strength’s Princeton "Taste of the Nation," presented by American Express and Jenn-Air.    An annual fund-raiser, Princeton "Taste of the Nation" is part of the largest nationwide benefit to fight hunger. The event will take place Monday,…

  • Council cuts penny from proposed tax hike

    2005 municipal budget introduced with 11 percent rate increase. By: Lea Kahn    Township Council introduced its proposed $34.8 million budget for 2005 Tuesday — despite objections from a handful of residents who oppose the proposed 11 percent tax rate increase and the elimination of a police lieutenant’s position.    The council voted 3-1 to introduce the…

  • ‘Room Service’

    Somerset Valley Players revive the wacky comedy. By: Stuart Duncan    For most people, Room Service is a 1938 Marx Brothers movie, with starlets such as Lucille Ball and Ann Miller handling the "pretty girl" roles. Few remember that the film was based on a Broadway comedy a year earlier, written by John Murray and Allen…

  • City man returns from Iraq

    Mitchell Ege spent his first few days home helping out his fellow firemen volunteers during the flooding in Lambertville. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — After a 13-month tour of duty in Iraq, soldiering in war zones like Kirkuk, Mitchell Ege has finally come home.    Spc. Ege, a graduate of South Hunterdon Regional High School, is…

  • Letters-April 7, 2005

    KidsFirst running for board To the editor:    I am writing in response to letters and articles detailing the decision-making processes of our local school boards and districts around different financial issues.    My name is Megan O’Brien, and I have decided to run for school board in the New Hope-Solebury School District.    A group of frustrated…